Foxcroft v. Mallett
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Circuit. Court of the United States for th.e. District of Maine. It was a writ of right- sued out by David Mallett, an inhabitant. of New Hampshire, demanding two lots oí* land situated in Lee, in the county of Penobscot, and State of Maine, being lots numbered eleven in the fourth range, and' eleven in the fifth range, containing two hundred acres, more, or less, in said town of Lee.
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This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Circuit. Court of the United States for th.e. District of Maine. It was a writ of right- sued out by David Mallett, an inhabitant. of New Hampshire, demanding two lots oí* land situated in Lee, in the county of Penobscot, and State of Maine, being lots numbered eleven in the fourth range, and' eleven in the fifth range, containing two hundred acres, more, or less, in said town of Lee. As an illustration of the chain of title, on the part of both plaintiff and defendant, the reporter has prepared the two following diagrams, showing the title…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodbury
This is a writ of error, founded on an exception taken to thfe ruling of the Circuit Court, in the Maine District, as to the construction of a deed.
The action below was brought to recover lots No. 11 in the 4th range, and No. 11 in the 5th range, in the town of Lee, in said District; and the construction objected to was, .that a mortgage, executed June 5th, 1827, by Samuel Mallett to Williams College, dnder which institution the plaintiff in error claims, did not comprehend or convey the demanded premises.
In order to judge of the correctness of this construction, and. its bearing on the…
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